GCSEN Foundation selected as presenter at the 13th Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference

11/12/2016

The 13th Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference is the worldâ€™s largest Social Entrepreneurship academic conference featuring leading thought leaders

Online PR News – 12-November-2016 – Los Angeles, California – Social entrepreneurs act with purpose for people, planet and profit. The Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship Network Foundation (GCSEN) CEO, Professor Michael Caslin, will be presenting at the 13th Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference hosted by the University of Southern Californiaâ€™s Marshall School of Business and Northeastern Universityâ€™s Dâ€™amore-McKim School of Business in Los Angeles, CA on Nov. 11â€“12, 2016.

It is the worldâ€™s largest Social Entrepreneurship academic conference featuring leading thought leaders in keynotes and panels convening many dozens of academic scholars, practitioners and students in social entrepreneurship to discuss emerging theory, research, strategies, innovations, tools, concepts and themes in social entrepreneurship research.

Professor Mike Caslin will be presenting GCSEN Foundationâ€™s paper on behalf of its Social Entrepreneurship Instituteâ€™s Members listed below for â€śOrganizing the Social Enterprise from Startup to Transformative Scaleâ€ť. A rigorous prac-ademic approach (practitioner focused practical tools supported by academic strength) will be explored. The paper was co-authored by practitioners and professors which include:

This confluence of the leading thought leaders, scholars and social entrepreneurs will further accelerate the growth and development in the theory and research in the transformative field of social entrepreneurship.

Professor Caslin believes that, â€śSocial Entrepreneurship offers the best way forward toward peace and prosperity. Powered by Millennial college and graduate students and adult learners and doers, supported by outstanding faculty and impact investors and visionary philanthropists The DDS Foundation, Sobrato-Brisson Trust of Silicon Valley Community Foundation and The Lois and Len Green Foundation, we are supporting an emerging and powerful, market-based transformative force for local economies and beyond. We at GCSEN Foundation believe this will be the most powerful, practical and proven wealth creating, poverty reducing, local economy building force for good to be seen in the Millennial driven economy in the decades to comeâ€ť.

This conference was made possible by the bold and visionary leadership of the conferenceâ€™s co-directors Jill R. Kickul and Sophie Bacq. Jill is the Founding Director of the Annual Conference on Social Entrepreneurship, now the largest academic conference in the field and has a bestselling book, Understanding Social Entrepreneurship: The Relentless Pursuit of Mission in an Ever Changing World, which has been adopted for the classroom by over 80 universities. Sophie is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Northeastern University in Boston, where she teaches social entrepreneurship and microfinance at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Sophieâ€™s research is situated at the intersection of social entrepreneurship, strategy and governance with a focus on understanding how hybridity is managed in social enterprises and how societal-level outcomes are achieved.

To download GCSENâ€™s presentation, join its growing community of social entrepreneurs or find out more about the SES Institute visit: